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Science at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Science at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Autumn Term: What are the states of matter?

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Autumn Term: What are the states of matter?

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Science at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Science at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Science at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Spring Term: How is our structure and movement managed?

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Spring Term: How is our structure and movement managed?

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Science at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Science at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Acid or alkali - how do I know?

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Summer Term: Acid or alkali - how do I know?

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Science at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Acid or alkali - how do I know?

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Summer Term: Acid or alkali - how do I know?

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Science at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Why are plants so important?

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Summer Term: Why are plants so important?

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Science at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: How are ecosystems balanced?

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Summer Term: How are ecosystems balanced?

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Science at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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French at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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French at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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French at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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French at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Why are holidays important?

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Summer Term: Why are holidays important?

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French at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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French at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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History at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Autumn Term: How had Britain changed by 1066?

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Autumn Term: How had Britain changed by 1066?

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History at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Autumn Term: How much did the Norman Conquest change life in Britain?

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Autumn Term: How much did the Norman Conquest change life in Britain?

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History at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Spring Term: Rats, lice and rebels - which event changed life the most?

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Spring Term: Rats, lice and rebels - which event changed life the most?

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History at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Spring Term: Was there a world wide web in the Middle Ages?

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Spring Term: Was there a world wide web in the Middle Ages?

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History at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: What was the 'religious rollercoaster' of the English Reformation?

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Summer Term: What was the 'religious rollercoaster' of the English Reformation?

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History at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Why did Civil War break out in 1642 and how did it affect life in Britain?

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Summer Term: Why did Civil War break out in 1642 and how did it affect life in Britain?

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History at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Autumn Term: How can we be good geographers?

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Autumn Term: How can we be good geographers?

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Geography at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Geography at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Autumn Term: 'The Almighty Dollar' - Where does money go when it's spent?

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Autumn Term: 'The Almighty Dollar' - Where does money go when it's spent?

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Geography at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Geography at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Spring Term: Why do The Brits love to talk about the weather?

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Spring Term: Why do The Brits love to talk about the weather?

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Geography at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Am I taking care of my world?

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Summer Term: Am I taking care of my world?

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Geography at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Is all of Africa hot, poor, and desert like?

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Summer Term: Is all of Africa hot, poor, and desert like?

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Geography at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Is all of Africa hot, poor, and desert like?

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Summer Term: Is all of Africa hot, poor, and desert like?

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Geography at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Is all of Africa hot, poor, and desert like?

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Summer Term: Is all of Africa hot, poor, and desert like?

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Geography at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Performing Arts at Northstowe (padlet.com)

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Performing Arts at Northstowe (padlet.com)

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Performing Arts at Northstowe (padlet.com)

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Performing Arts at Northstowe (padlet.com)

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Performing Arts at Northstowe (padlet.com)

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Performing Arts at Northstowe (padlet.com)

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Performing Arts at Northstowe (padlet.com)

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Performing Arts at Northstowe (padlet.com)

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Performing Arts at Northstowe (padlet.com)

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Performing Arts at Northstowe (padlet.com)

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Autumn Term: What are the skills I need in Art?

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Autumn Term: What are the skills I need in Art?

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Art at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Art at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Spring Term: Natural Forms - Artist focus: Roa

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Spring Term: Natural Forms - Artist focus: Roa

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Art at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Art at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Art at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Art at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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PE at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Autumn Term: Introduction to Rugby Union

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Autumn Term: Introduction to Rugby Union

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PE at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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PE at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Spring Term: Introduction to Field Hockey

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Spring Term: Introduction to Field Hockey

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PE at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Spring Term: Introduction to table tennis

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Spring Term: Introduction to table tennis

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PE at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Spring Term: How do you solve problems and work successfully as a team?

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Spring Term: How do you solve problems and work successfully as a team?

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PE at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: An introduction to Netball and Leadership Qualities

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Summer Term: An introduction to Netball and Leadership Qualities

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PE at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Striking and fielding games

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Summer Term: Striking and fielding games

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PE at Northstowe Secondary College (padlet.com)

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Design & Technology at Northstowe Seconday College (padlet.com)

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Design & Technology at Northstowe Seconday College (padlet.com)

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Design & Technology at Northstowe Seconday College (padlet.com)

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Northstowe Secondary College Mathematicians (padlet.com)

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Northstowe Secondary College Mathematicians (padlet.com)

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Northstowe Secondary College Mathematicians (padlet.com)

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Northstowe Secondary College Mathematicians (padlet.com)

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Northstowe Secondary College Mathematicians (padlet.com)

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Northstowe Secondary College Mathematicians (padlet.com)

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Northstowe Secondary College Mathematicians (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Space, notations, symmetry and tessellations

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Summer Term: Space, notations, symmetry and tessellations

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Northstowe Secondary College Mathematicians (padlet.com)

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Northstowe Secondary College Mathematicians (padlet.com)

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Summer Term: Angle facts, drawing and measuring

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Summer Term: Angle facts, drawing and measuring

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Northstowe Secondary College Mathematicians (padlet.com)

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Using Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ as our starting point, students will explore how women are presented in a range of tales, and practise discussing our ideas in an essay.

Enrichment:
‘Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales’ by Marcia Williams

‘The Seeing Stone’ by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Visit the British Library in London to see an original manuscript of ‘The Canterbury Tales’.

Visit Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey in London to see where Geoffrey Chaucer was buried.

Diverse reads:
Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie

Not Here To Be Liked by Michelle Quach

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

Links with other learning:
History – The Medieval feudal system that students will explore in the Autumn term.

Ethics – The concept of religious pilgrimages that students will explore in the Summer term.

How to Thrive - Issues related to gender identity, equality, and respect in relationships that students ill explore in the Summer term.

Performing Arts - Characterisation is the focus in the Autumn term when students study Jenna Ryan’s ’Darkwood Manor’

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Spring 1: What’s so special about Shakespeare?

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Spring 1: What’s so special about Shakespeare?

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Continuing our chronological journey through the canon, students will be taken on a rollercoaster ride around the life, times, dramatic works, performances and legacy of Shakespeare, with the aim of igniting a lifelong enjoyment and appreciation of the Bard.  Students will share their learning in a magazine article entitled ‘What’s so special about Shakespeare?’, with the intention of persuading a reluctant audience to realise how amazing he is.

Enrichment:
‘Shakespeare Stories’ by Leon Garfield

‘A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories’ by Angela McAllister

‘Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays’ by Marcia Williams

‘Shakespeare: The World as a stage’ by Bill Bryson

‘Shakespeare on Toast’ by Ben Crystal

Visit the RSC and Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford Upon Avon.

Visit The Globe theatre in London and watch a Shakespeare play performed live.

Watch 'West Side Story' - a modern retelling of 'Romeo and Juliet'

Challenge:
Memorise off by heart the 'All the world's a stage' from As You Like It

Stage a 30 min play of 'Midsummer Night's Dream' using these resources from the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)edu-rscdreamteam-playmakingpack-2016.pdf

Write a creative commentary on your experience of living through a global pandemic

Links with other learning:
History – In the Spring Term, students will be writing a persuasive essay in History. They're also be exploring religious changes within the Tudor period in the Summer Term.

Geography – Shakespeare sets his plays all over Europe and would have taken his Elizabethan audience to countries that they would never normally be able to visit.

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Spring 2: Are poems a source of knowledge?

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Spring 2: Are poems a source of knowledge?

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We will take a thematic journey through ‘voices’ within poetry exploring a journey of ideas and backgrounds expressed through language and imagery.

Enrichment:
National poetry library which can be explored online.

‘A poem for every night of the year’ by Allie Esiri

‘National Trust: Tyger Tyger Burning Bright!: An animal poem for every day of the year’ by Fiona Waters

Poems to Live Your Life By’ edited by Chris Riddell

Watch ‘Chocolate Cake’ by Michael Rosen.

Visit the British Library in London which has an impressive exhibition on ‘The Romantics’.

Links with other learning:
How to thrive – Spring Term (self-talk and thinking styles) + Summer Term (positive relationships)

Geography – Spring Term (weather and climate)

French – Spring Term (hobbies and free-time) of Year 7 and revisited in the Autumn Term of Years 8 and 9.

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Summer 1 and 2: Why do we like to travel?

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Summer 1 and 2: Why do we like to travel?

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Using a collection of C.21 non-fiction texts as our starting point, students will research into and create a travel writing blog.
Enrichment:
Notes from a Small Island’ by Bill Bryson

‘The Road to Little Dribbling’ by Bill Bryson

‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurgo

‘Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell

‘Explorers’ by Nellie Huang

Watch BBC’s ‘Planet Earth’

Links with other learning:
Geography – worldwide locations and holiday destinations

French – Holidays and ideal holidays in the Summer Term of Year 7.

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This learning chapter will begin with examining the concept of social justice means and whether or not we live in an equal society. We will then study Sikhi and how the religion supports social justice. We will begin with a look at how the Sikhi religion is organised; who are the important religious figures and what are some customs and practices within Sikhi. We will practice explaining our points in detail and how to include examples before learning what evaluation is and this will finish with the writing of an essay as our end piece of ‘Beautiful Work’.

Enrichment:

Students are encouraged to start watching the news and looking out for stories concerning ethics and religion, and for looking out for information in newspapers and magazines.

Students are also encouraged to start watching documentaries on Sikhi and ethics in general.

Links with other learning:

This links with Geography and globalisation as we study different worldviews and and cultures. This links with History and English as you look through examples of social justice.

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Autumn 2 & Spring 1 - What does a good life look like in Buddhism?

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Autumn 2 & Spring 1 - What does a good life look like in Buddhism?

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This learning chapter will be focused on describing the key teachings of the Buddha (Dukkha, the 4 Noble Truths, 5 precepts and Eightfold path) and most will apply these ideas to the lives of Buddhists using examples. They will raise questions and suggest answers about the issues arising. Many will analyse the implications of running a business based on Buddhist principles and evaluate the benefits and issues arising from this way of life and whether or not good you can live a good life following Buddhist principles.

Enrichment:

Watching the BBC documentary: Seven wonders of the Buddhist world to explore Buddhism culturally. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiEADtRLQfs)

The Art of Happiness: A handbook for living - Dalia Lama.

Visiting the Cambridge Buddhist Centre to learn more about Buddhism in the UK (https://www.cambridgebuddhistcentre.com/)

Links with other learning:

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Spring 2 & Summer 1 - What can we learn from Hinduism about how to treat animals?

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Spring 2 & Summer 1 - What can we learn from Hinduism about how to treat animals?

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This learning chapter will begin with a look at the basis of the divine and what Hindus believe in regards to the 'Trimurti' and understanding their worship of multiple deities. This leads us on to understanding how they view life and death through the learning of the key concepts of the atman (soul), samsara and karma. Once we've learnt these key concepts we are then able to apply and understand how Hindu beliefs of the divine impact their actions towards animals and the environment around them.

Enrichment:

Students can watch the fantastic documentary on BBC called 'Being Hindu' which shows what daily life is like for Hindus.

Students can visit one of the largest Mandirs in the UK called the 'Neasden Temple' in London. This has been described as Britain's first authentic Hindu temple.

Students can also learn more about how animals and cows are treated in Hinduism by going through websites to do with 'Gausadans' (cow sanctuaries) - https://www.bhaktivedantamanor.co.uk/home/?page_id=4073

Links with other learning:

This has links with Geography on the 6th learning chapter on 'Am I taking care of my world?'. This will link in by getting students to think about the ethical and practical implications of how we use and treat animals in this world.

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Summer 2 - How do different worldviews serve our local community?

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Summer 2 - How do different worldviews serve our local community?

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This overview study explores the impact that faith and worldviews can have on our local community and on wider communities both in the present and historically. This includes:

·       Thinking about faith in both Longstanton and Cambridge for all past and present features of worldviews and faith. Comparison of two different churches, understanding denominations and how they're different. This is followed up with research on the various churches seen and exploration of the work these do in the local community and beyond.

·       Reflection on findings from the fieldwork and consideration of what we did not see.

·       Comparison with a mosque, its features and work in a community, particular study of the new Cambridge mosque.

·       Exploration of the adhan and its impact, role play in considering whether to allow it in a fictional town.

Students will be able to identify the features of Christian and Islamic places of worship and make comparisons within and between the religions. They will be able to consider and analyse the work and impact of these groups past and present. They will apply knowledge to practical considerations of faiths living alongside each other and evaluate arguments around the adhan.

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This overview study is an exploration of philosophical and ethical questions about morality, how we define “good” and the challenges it poses. This includes:

·       What we mean when we say someone is good and where those ideas have come from, looking at case studies and scenarios to help inform and challenge our understanding.

·       A short comparison of different ethical theories (Virtue Ethics, Utilitarianism, Divine Command, Ahimsa, Karma) to consider whether good actions or personal qualities are most important.

·       Exploration of the concept of justice, focusing on the stories and Esther and Maximillian Kolbe, placing them in context. Court room consideration of the relative guilt of key characters in the story of Esther.

·       Investigation into a choice of role models considering their contribution to social justice and their impact. Presentations to class

Enrichment:

Students are encouraged to read books around morality such as Charlottes Web, Running on the Roof of the world and Hero on the bicycle.

Also have a think about everyday decisions and choices you make – would you make the same choices after learning about some of the content we are going to study?

Links with other learning:

History - links with moral issues concerning historical events such as dictatorships, the Holocaust and WW1 and WW2.

Geography - this unit links with topics concerning low income and high income countries and moral questions surrounding physical geography and climate change. In particular focusing on world development and the moral questions surrounding 'have we won the geography lottery'?

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Using Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ as our starting point, students will explore what makes a great story, experiment with how to use language, voice, and physical gestures to bring stories to life when reading aloud, and practise writing an untold chapter of the story.

Enrichment:
‘The Iliad’ by Gillian Cross

‘Mythos’ by Stephen Fry

‘A child’s introduction to Greek mythology’ by Heather Alexander

‘Percy Jackson’ series by Rick Riordan

‘Beowulf: Dragon Slayer’ by Rosemary Sutcliffe

‘Gods and Monsters’, a BBC documentary narrated by Simon Armitage.

BBC Non-fiction article - on-fiction BBC article ‘The Greatest tale ever told’

Diverse Reads:

Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology by Ellie Mackin Roberts

Goddesses and Heroines: Women of myth and legend by Xanthe Gresham-Knight

Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie

Medusa by Jessie Burton

Links with other learning:
History – The concept of monarchy and leadership in the second part of the Autumn term and considering whether Cromwell was a hero or a villain in the second part of the Summer term.

Performing Arts – Narration and improvisation when exploring devised theatre.

How to Thrive – The positive effects that reading for pleasure can have on us emotionally.